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Course Information

Division

Trade & Industrial Education

Course Code

TI01334

Course Title

Digital Forensics

Suggested Course Hours

75.00

Course Description

This course will introduce students to digital forensics and teach them how to obtain digital evidence for use in an investigation. Students are introduced to basic computer and networking concepts, the internet, and computer crimes. In addition, students will learn how to manage evidence and the industry best-practices for examining computers that might contain crime-related information.

Contact Information

Darren Gibson
405-743-5143
dgibs@okcareertech.org

Prerequisites

Knowledge & Skills

- Identify what constitutes a crime and identify categories of crime.

- Explain law enforcement's authority to investigate information warfare and terrorist threats to national security.

- Explain the different types of evidence.

- Identify what affects the admissibility of evidence.

- Identify how electronic evidence differs from physical evidence.

- Identify what computer forensics tools and techniques can reveal.

- Explain the process of discovery and electronic discovery.

- Recognize the role e-evidence plays in physical or violent and computer crimes.

- Describe the basic steps in a computer forensics investigation.

- Identify the types of challenges to the admissibility of e-evidence.

- Understand how criminals' motives can help in crime detection and investigation.